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• Storage and data at the coalface

  How do you manage something that's constantly growing fast, with no end in sight? That's the question many Australian IT managers are currently asking themselves, as they size up their storage and data management strategy going into 2009. Unfortunately, there's no easy answer.

• Dell buys familiar MessageOne e-mail service

  Dell is planning to buy MessageOne -- founded by Michael Dell's brother Adam -- in a US$155 million dollar cash acquisition.

• Green issues drive change at Sun

  Sun Microsystems is merging its storage and server units into one team, the company's chief executive Jonathan Schwartz has announced.

• Hitachi moves away from tape

  Hitachi Data Systems launched on Monday a virtual tape library aimed at high-end open systems and mainframe users.

• Magnetic tape prototype makes data leap

  Magnetic tape isn't dead, IBM and Fuji Photo would like you to know.

Blogs (1)

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  How do you deal with 250,000 tapes?

  I'm standing in a room with roughly a quarter of a million backup tapes. No, this isn't where the FuelWatch guys hid the evidence, it's the Perth storage area for Spectrum Data, which specialises in storing ageing backup media and helping companies retrieve data from long-forgotten archives.

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• The open source guide to the galaxy

  Could your business be paying for a proprietary program when an open source alternative exists? Take a look at our guide as we count down the most popular open source products.

• For Batlow, bad apples never fall far from the supply chain

  Any manufacturer knows that a product recall can be an absolute nightmare of paperwork and logistics. At NSW agricultural cooperative Batlow Apples, however, an increasingly capable implementation of Microsoft's Navision ERP has provided the confidence that such a recall could be managed relatively easily.

• NSW hospital increases storage capacity for imaging system

  The John Hunter hospital in New South Wales has adopted storage solution provider StorageTek's D-series disk products to support its rapidly expanding picture archiving and communications system (PACS).

• ILM: Getting intimate with data

  ILM is the future of storage (or so we're told). But what is it? How do you get it? The details may still be a bit sketchy but that doesn't necessarily mean you can afford to put considerations to the side.

• Archiving your organisation's e-mail

  E-mails are an organisation's corporate history and should be treated as carefully as any other important record. Archiving e-mail is one way to facilitate retrieval of lost e-mails and also meet legal requirements on e-mail storage.

Reviews (1)

• Burn, Baby, Burn

  The CD-RW drive is the peripheral du jour, and if you don't have one of these devices hooked up to your system, you're missing out on a whole lot of fun and function.

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